extended families

• extended family

  family beyond nuclear family, involving grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins etc
• extended family - pre industrial society


  common for extended family to live together under one roof on the same plot of land

  family was unit of production
• extended family - post industrial society


  families no longer needed to be unit of production due to industrialisation

  families started to split away from extended family and move into smaller homes in cities
• CHARLES - extended family


  classic three generation family all living together under one roof is now all but extinct
• WILLMOT AND CHAMBERLAIN - extended family


  extended families continue to exist as a 'dispersed extended family' via phone calls and messages

  despite being geographically dispersed, they still provide support = multiple nuclear families